Artificial intelligence and conservation /
edited by Fei Fang, Carnegie Mellon University, Milind Tambe, University of Southern California, Bistra Dilkina, Georgia Institute of Technology, Andrew J. Plumptre, Key Biodiversity Areas Secretariat.
- x, 236 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Artificial intelligence for social good .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Law enforcement for wildlife conservation -- Wildlife poaching forecasting based on ranger-collected data and evaluation through field tests -- Optimal patrol planning against black-box attackers -- Automatic detection of poachers and wildlife with UAVs -- Protecting coral reef ecosystems via efficient patrols -- Simultaneous optimization of strategic and tactical planning for environmental sustainability and security -- NECTAR: enforcing environmental compliance through strategically randomized factory inspections -- Connecting conservation research and implementation: building a wildfire assistant -- Probablistic inference with generating functions for animal populations -- Engaging citizen scientists in data collection for conservation -- Simulator-defined markov decision processes: a case study in managing bio-invasions.